I often interact with people who insist on avoiding reinventing the wheel, yet there have been plenty of innovations in the course of human existence that we can just as purposefully avoid reinventing. I would like to hear of someone avoiding reinventing the steam engine or sliced bread or the printing press. We can also [...]
Categories: opinionation, snippets from somewhere
Where were you? I was arriving home from my writing class to find my husband at the kitchen table, watching McCain’s concession speech on MSNBC Live. I was shocked that the results were declared so early. I interrupted a writing session to watch Obama’s first speech as president-elect. Because it will be history. Except I [...]
Categories: opinionation
Quit talking about the countless millions. You have numbered them at millions and I have no doubt they could be counted if you took the time. You certainly have enough time for death tolls and dollars. These millions are not abstract. They have faces—dirty or frustrated or tired or stony or bleak or hopeful—that you [...]
Categories: opinionation, snippets from somewhere
I, in no way, miss our previous prolonged interaction. I do not miss being forced daily to view the world through your distorted eyes. I only wish that I could conduct our current occasional and brief conversational contact with a single iota of grace. All I ask is a single witty rebuttal, one wisp of [...]
Categories: not-so-secret notes, opinionation
While I have never felt any need to express myself by leaving statements on the walls in public toilets, I always enjoy the conversations that sometimes take place and I’m fascinated by the declarations people choose to make while locked in a stall.
Categories: notions and sundries, opinionation
